From omar.polo at europecom.net Sun Jun 4 22:02:24 2017
From: omar.polo at europecom.net (Omar Polo)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 23:02:24 +0200
Subject: [Assist] Snapper and OpenRC
Message-ID: <20170604210224.GA15099@venera>
Hi,
two days ago I reinstalled parabola on my laptop and I've decided to use
openrc as init system.
So far everything went well, but now I've noticed that snapper does not
work as expected.
Snapper is a tool to create and manage snapshots of BTRFS and LVM
partitions.
The problem is that when I run any command that involves `snapper(8)` I
get
```
Operation not succeeded (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed).
```
BUT, if I start `snapperd` in some terminal, `snapper` suddenly start
working. Unfortunately `snapperd` stops itself after a short period of
time.
Digging in the source code of snapper, I've understood that `snapperd`
relies on dbus for its activation. [^1]
Given this, how can I solve this problem? Manually running `snapperd`
could temporary fix this problem, but isn't something I'd like to do on
a daily basis.
I've tried to write an init.d script that starts `snapperd`, but
`snapperd` quit itself after inactivity.
Obviously all mentioned command were executed as root
* * *
[^1]: The snapper' systemd unit file is:
```
# DBus service activation config
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.opensuse.Snapper
Exec=/usr/sbin/snapperd
User=root
```
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From megver83 at openmailbox.org Mon Jun 5 00:23:45 2017
From: megver83 at openmailbox.org (Megver83)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 19:23:45 -0400
Subject: [Assist] Snapper and OpenRC
In-Reply-To: <20170604210224.GA15099@venera>
References: <20170604210224.GA15099@venera>
Message-ID: <2f29671b-321f-82de-c473-3e56c2971d72@openmailbox.org>
Haven't you looked for a Snapper OpenRC init script?
I've not seen in Gentoo's wiki that Snapper has no init script -->
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Snapper however, the same happened with
udisks2 so storage devices where not detected by GUI file managers, so I
created my own udisks2-openrc package and uploaded it to [pcr] and AUR,
maybe the same could happen with snapper.
El 04/06/17 a las 17:02, Omar Polo escribi?:
> Hi,
>
> two days ago I reinstalled parabola on my laptop and I've decided to use
> openrc as init system.
>
> So far everything went well, but now I've noticed that snapper does not
> work as expected.
>
> Snapper is a tool to create and manage snapshots of BTRFS and LVM
> partitions.
>
> The problem is that when I run any command that involves `snapper(8)` I
> get
> ```
> Operation not succeeded (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed).
> ```
>
> BUT, if I start `snapperd` in some terminal, `snapper` suddenly start
> working. Unfortunately `snapperd` stops itself after a short period of
> time.
>
> Digging in the source code of snapper, I've understood that `snapperd`
> relies on dbus for its activation. [^1]
>
> Given this, how can I solve this problem? Manually running `snapperd`
> could temporary fix this problem, but isn't something I'd like to do on
> a daily basis.
>
> I've tried to write an init.d script that starts `snapperd`, but
> `snapperd` quit itself after inactivity.
>
> Obviously all mentioned command were executed as root
>
> * * *
>
> [^1]: The snapper' systemd unit file is:
> ```
> # DBus service activation config
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=org.opensuse.Snapper
> Exec=/usr/sbin/snapperd
> User=root
> ```
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Assist mailing list
> Assist at lists.parabola.nu
> https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/assist
>
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From omar.polo at europecom.net Mon Jun 5 08:15:35 2017
From: omar.polo at europecom.net (Omar Polo)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 09:15:35 +0200
Subject: [Assist] Snapper and OpenRC
In-Reply-To: <2f29671b-321f-82de-c473-3e56c2971d72@openmailbox.org>
References: <20170604210224.GA15099@venera>
<2f29671b-321f-82de-c473-3e56c2971d72@openmailbox.org>
Message-ID: <20170605071535.GA31541@venera>
Hi,
Thanks for the reply!
I forgot to mention that I've alredy checked the gentoo wiki :)
I tried to build an init script
[snapper-openrc](https://github.com/omar-polo/snapper-openrc) but the
problem is that snapperd quit itself after some inactivity. AFAIK
snapperd is expected to be launched by dbus, and that for some reason
does not happen to me.
---
I was about to sending this email, when I noticed that snapper (the cli
tool, not the deamon) has an option to run without dbus (`--no-dbus`),
I'm using that for now
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 07:23:45PM -0400, Megver83 wrote:
> Haven't you looked for a Snapper OpenRC init script?
> I've not seen in Gentoo's wiki that Snapper has no init script -->
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Snapper however, the same happened with
> udisks2 so storage devices where not detected by GUI file managers, so I
> created my own udisks2-openrc package and uploaded it to [pcr] and AUR,
> maybe the same could happen with snapper.
>
> El 04/06/17 a las 17:02, Omar Polo escribi?:
> > Hi,
> >
> > two days ago I reinstalled parabola on my laptop and I've decided to use
> > openrc as init system.
> >
> > So far everything went well, but now I've noticed that snapper does not
> > work as expected.
> >
> > Snapper is a tool to create and manage snapshots of BTRFS and LVM
> > partitions.
> >
> > The problem is that when I run any command that involves `snapper(8)` I
> > get
> > ```
> > Operation not succeeded (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed).
> > ```
> >
> > BUT, if I start `snapperd` in some terminal, `snapper` suddenly start
> > working. Unfortunately `snapperd` stops itself after a short period of
> > time.
> >
> > Digging in the source code of snapper, I've understood that `snapperd`
> > relies on dbus for its activation. [^1]
> >
> > Given this, how can I solve this problem? Manually running `snapperd`
> > could temporary fix this problem, but isn't something I'd like to do on
> > a daily basis.
> >
> > I've tried to write an init.d script that starts `snapperd`, but
> > `snapperd` quit itself after inactivity.
> >
> > Obviously all mentioned command were executed as root
> >
> > * * *
> >
> > [^1]: The snapper' systemd unit file is:
> > ```
> > # DBus service activation config
> > [D-BUS Service]
> > Name=org.opensuse.Snapper
> > Exec=/usr/sbin/snapperd
> > User=root
> > ```
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Assist mailing list
> > Assist at lists.parabola.nu
> > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/assist
> >
>
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From reg_ at openmailbox.org Fri Jun 9 19:13:01 2017
From: reg_ at openmailbox.org (Reg)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 20:13:01 +0200
Subject: [Assist] linux-libre is not part of the base group anymore
Message-ID:
Hi!
I was installing Parabola on a new computer today and noticed that the linux-libre package is not included in the base group anymore.
I suppose that's not intended, so I thought I'd report it.
Best regards,
Reg
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From isacdaavid at isacdaavid.info Fri Jun 9 23:18:37 2017
From: isacdaavid at isacdaavid.info (Isaac David)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:18:37 -0500
Subject: [Assist] linux-libre is not part of the base group anymore
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <1497046717.19739.1@plebeian.isacdaavid.info>
Reg wrote:
> I was installing Parabola on a new computer today and noticed that
> the linux-libre package is not included in the base group anymore.
>
> I suppose that's not intended, so I thought I'd report it.
you are right.
the problem seems to be that the groups=() definition is now only
evaluated if [ "${pkgbase}" = "linux" ], instead of the former
[ "${pkgbase}" = "linux-libre" ]
also, base-openrc was taken out of the groups. was that on purpose?
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From megver83 at openmailbox.org Sat Jun 10 02:12:19 2017
From: megver83 at openmailbox.org (Megver83)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 21:12:19 -0400
Subject: [Assist] linux-libre is not part of the base group anymore
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
Crap! It's my fault, I'll fix that on the upgrade to 4.11.4 during the
weekend.
Thanks for notifying me.
El 09/06/17 a las 14:13, Reg escribi?:
> Hi!
>
> I was installing Parabola on a new computer today and noticed that the
> linux-libre package is not included in the base group anymore.
>
> I suppose that's not intended, so I thought I'd report it.
>
> Best regards,
> Reg
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Assist mailing list
> Assist at lists.parabola.nu
> https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/assist
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From edgar at openmail.cc Sat Jun 10 06:01:23 2017
From: edgar at openmail.cc (edgar at openmail.cc)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 05:01:23 +0000
Subject: [Assist] custom live environment (usb) (Megver83)
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 19:23:08 -0300
> From: Megver83
> To: assist at lists.parabola.nu
> Subject: Re: [Assist] custom live environment (usb)
> Message-ID:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> In fact, it is very easy to make custom ISOs, there's an article in
> the wiki about that -->
> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Remastering_the_Install_ISO
>
> If you need more help or you have questions, no not doubt about asking
> ;)
>
Thanks! Your e-mail just arrived like two days ago. (I hadn't answered
because I was out of town.) I will certainly get in touch (and disable
the Digest option in the mailing list). Have a nice weekend.
Edgar
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From edgar at openmail.cc Sat Jun 10 06:12:19 2017
From: edgar at openmail.cc (edgar at openmail.cc)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 05:12:19 +0000
Subject: [Assist] custom live environment (usb) (Megver83)
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
On 2017-06-10 05:01, edgar at openmail.cc wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 19:23:08 -0300
>> From: Megver83
>> To: assist at lists.parabola.nu
>> Subject: Re: [Assist] custom live environment (usb)
>> Message-ID:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>
>> In fact, it is very easy to make custom ISOs, there's an article in
>> the wiki about that -->
>> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Remastering_the_Install_ISO
>>
>> If you need more help or you have questions, no not doubt about asking
>> ;)
>>
>
> Thanks! Your e-mail just arrived like two days ago. (I hadn't answered
> because I was out of town.) I will certainly get in touch (and disable
> the Digest option in the mailing list). Have a nice weekend.
>
>
> Edgar
First question: can I follow the procedure from within Debian or Ubuntu?
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From megver83 at openmailbox.org Sat Jun 10 19:46:55 2017
From: megver83 at openmailbox.org (Megver83)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:46:55 -0400
Subject: [Assist] custom live environment (usb) (Megver83)
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <2acde8c0-b19e-988b-6ee6-a94f848417d6@openmailbox.org>
the guide is for ISOs made with Archiso and/or Parabolaiso
El 10/06/17 a las 01:12, edgar at openmail.cc escribi?:
> On 2017-06-10 05:01, edgar at openmail.cc wrote:
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 19:23:08 -0300
>>> From: Megver83
>>> To: assist at lists.parabola.nu
>>> Subject: Re: [Assist] custom live environment (usb)
>>> Message-ID:
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>>
>>> In fact, it is very easy to make custom ISOs, there's an article in
>>> the wiki about that -->
>>> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Remastering_the_Install_ISO
>>>
>>> If you need more help or you have questions, no not doubt about
>>> asking ;)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks! Your e-mail just arrived like two days ago. (I hadn't answered
>> because I was out of town.) I will certainly get in touch (and disable
>> the Digest option in the mailing list). Have a nice weekend.
>>
>>
>> Edgar
>
> First question: can I follow the procedure from within Debian or Ubuntu?
>
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From uaqben at openmailbox.org Tue Jun 13 20:50:01 2017
From: uaqben at openmailbox.org (Ben)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:50:01 +0200
Subject: [Assist] l2tp VPN solution?
Message-ID: <0d7fff4e-8da6-3e0e-94b8-2ecbec618000@openmailbox.org>
Hi,
I'm trying to connect via an IPSec/L2TP VPN
The Arch wiki which has a manual config guide[1], but I'd prefer a
solution which interfaced within Gnome Network Manager.
The `networkmanager-l2tp`[2] in the AUR seems like it.
I see other `networkmanager-*` packages are in Extra or PCR. Would there
be interest, aside of myself, in adding the above l2tp to PCR or Extra?
Also, I noticed our openswan package is outdated [3]. Not sure how/where
to report outdated packages, or is it via the package maintainer
process[4] ?
Thanks!
Ben
[1]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openswan_L2TP/IPsec_VPN_client_setup
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/networkmanager-l2tp/
[3] https://github.com/xelerance/Openswan/releases
[3]
https://wiki.parabola.nu/Package_maintainer_guide#Maintaining_Package_on_time_to_stay_up_to_date.21
From reg_ at openmailbox.org Sun Jun 18 19:44:03 2017
From: reg_ at openmailbox.org (reg_ at openmailbox.org)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:44:03 +0200
Subject: [Assist] Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for
username "dbus"
Message-ID: <61f377ba973da1656e7dd76dfc70d27e@openmailbox.org>
Hi guys,
I'm using Parabola with OpenRC.
The D-Bus daemon won't start:
$ sudo rc-service dbus start
* Starting dbus ...
Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username
"dbus"
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/dbus-daemon'
* Failed to start dbus
[ !! ]
* ERROR: dbus failed to start
There's no dbus user/group. Shall I just go ahead and create them?
Shouldn't they be created when installing D-Bus? I did not get this
issue on my other computers (which are all using systemd, this is the
first time I try OpenRC).
Thanks,
Reg
From megver83 at openmailbox.org Sun Jun 18 20:25:35 2017
From: megver83 at openmailbox.org (Megver83)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:25:35 -0400
Subject: [Assist] Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID
for username "dbus"
In-Reply-To: <61f377ba973da1656e7dd76dfc70d27e@openmailbox.org>
References: <61f377ba973da1656e7dd76dfc70d27e@openmailbox.org>
Message-ID: <4cff2cc3-0838-019c-95c0-e1a43ad6ba37@openmailbox.org>
Once I has the same problem with an old netbook, after I solved one
issue, another one came. I remember that I found the solution in a topic
of the Arch forums, but I do not have the URL now.
El 18/06/17 a las 14:44, reg_ at openmailbox.org escribi?:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm using Parabola with OpenRC.
>
> The D-Bus daemon won't start:
>
> $ sudo rc-service dbus start
> * Starting dbus ...
> Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "dbus"
> * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/dbus-daemon'
> * Failed to start dbus
>
>
> [ !! ]
> * ERROR: dbus failed to start
>
> There's no dbus user/group. Shall I just go ahead and create them?
> Shouldn't they be created when installing D-Bus? I did not get this
> issue on my other computers (which are all using systemd, this is the
> first time I try OpenRC).
>
> Thanks,
> Reg
> _______________________________________________
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From mr.j.spam.me at gmail.com Sun Jun 25 05:51:39 2017
From: mr.j.spam.me at gmail.com (Bill Auger)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:51:39 -0400
Subject: [Assist] custom live environment (usb) (Megver83)
Message-ID:
On 2017-06-10 05:01, edgar at openmail.cc wrote:
>> First question: can I follow the procedure from within Debian or Ubuntu?
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:46:55PM -0400, Megver83 wrote:
>> the guide is for ISOs made with Archiso and/or Parabolaiso
it is true that the ISO was made using Parabolaiso but the link given
is to the wiki page that describes remastering an existing ISO - that
can be done on any distro - i did it myself on debian last week
just be sure to modprobe squashfs first - i think the wiki neglected
to mention that